Food Photography: Portobello & Swiss Brown Mushrooms

These photos were taken in the morning on the day I made the lamb shank stew. It was a bright sunny morning, with wonderful lights shining outside, begging to be captured. So I knew it was the best time to shoot the portobello and swiss brown mushrooms which I bought the day before, specially to be photographed, as they looked so fresh and firm at Village Grocer, pleading me to take them home! I didn’t want to put the mushrooms to waste after photographing, so I had to come up with dishes to cook! The portobello mushrooms ended up in lunch for yesterday – linguine in spicy tomato sauce with grilled vegetables, and the swiss browns in the lamb shank stew.

The photos were shot with my Canon EOS 5D with a Tilt shift 90 mm f/2.8, without any filters, and mostly unedited, except for the second photo (a tiny tweak of the white balance and contrast). I am so amazed with the sharpness and details the lens can capture!

About the Author

Sce Hwai PHANG (known and pronounced as C.Y.) is a professional food stylist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Food and cooking is her biggest passion. Her job revolves around making food look good on camera and print, aside from developing and translating recipes as well as food-related consultation. She also does editorial food photography for magazines, restaurants and food companies occasionally. She is also a Cantonese-Mandarin-Malay-English simultaneous interpreter and accredited professional English><Chinese translator from NAATI (National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Australia) . Beside food, her greatest interest is traveling. Visiting various countries on the globe has opened up her vision to a whole new world and is her biggest source of inspiration!

CY can be contacted at cyphang@gmail.com for enquiries on food styling and editorial food photography service.